Tania Lombrozo in conversation with Elizabeth Margulis: "Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand"(Post)
Wed 10/7 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Tania Lombrozo discusses her new book with Elizabeth Margulis. Why We Ask Why is an insightful look at the science of explanation, using psyc ...
Elizabeth Margulis in conversation with Tania Lombrozo: "Transported: The Everyday Magic of Musical Daydreams"(Post)
5/19/26 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us as acclaimed music cognition researcher Elizabeth Margulis discusses her new book with Tania Lombrozo. Transported explores the phe ...
Beth Lew-Williams in conversation with Anne Cheng: "John Doe Chinaman: A Forgotten History of Chinese Life under American Racial Law"(Post)
Tues 9/16 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Beth Lew-Williams discusses her new book with Anne Cheng. John Doe Chinaman is a revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday li ...
Robert G. Parkinson: "Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence"(Post)
Tues 6/30 @ 7:00PMRobertson Hall 100 (Arthur Lewis Auditorium), Princeton University
A dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Rev ...
Peter Brooks in conversation with Anne Cheng: "Henry James Comes Home" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)
Tues 11/4 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brook ...
The Fund for Irish Studies presents Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride: "For and Against a United Ireland"(Post)
Fri 3/20 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street
Co-authors Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride debate the points in their recent book, For and Against a United Ireland, a ...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta in conversation with Kate Meng Brassel: "Classicism and Other Phobias" - Library Live at Labyrinth(Post)
Wednesday 9/10 @ 6:00 PM
Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Dan-el Padilla Peralta is joined by Kate Meng Brassel to discuss his new book Classicism and Other Phobias. The book, based on W.E.B. Du B ...
Twenty years of Harry Frankfurt’s "On Bullshit"(Post)
Thurs 10/30 @ 5:00PMPrinceton University Press, 41 William Street
With Jaime Fernández Fisac, Elizabeth Harman, and Gideon Rosen, moderated by Joe Schmid
The world has changed dramatical ...
Noel Rubinton: "Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Thursday 5/15 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
Noel Rubinton discusses his recently published book Looking for a Story: A Complete Guide to the Writings of John McPhee, an annotated guide to the wor ...
John Seabrook: "The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty" - A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Monday 6/16 @ 7:00PM
Princeton Public Library
John Seabrook, staff writer at The New Yorker for more than 3 decades, discusses his recently released book The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an Ame ...
Cass Sunstein: "On Liberalism: In Defense of Freedom" -- A Library and Labyrinth Collaboration(Post)
Wed 10/1 @ 6:00PMOnline webinar
Please note this event is now Zoom only. Click here for more information and to register: https://princetonlibrary.libnet.info/event/14322548
Join the Princeton ...
Owen Zidar in conversation with Alan Blinder: "The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There" - A Labyrinth & Library Collaboration(Post)
Wed 9/16 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a discussion between Owen Zidar and Alan Blinder. The Everywhere Millionaire is Zidar’s groundbreaking new portrait, co-authored ...
Merlin Holland Lectures on “After Oscar: Wilde between the li(n)es”(Post)
Fri 4/10 @ 4:30PMJames Stewart Film Theatre, 185 Nassau Street
Biographer and editor Merlin Holland, the only grandson of Oscar Wilde, gives a lecture entitled “After Oscar: Wilde between t ...
The Effron Center for the Study of America presents Ada Ferrer: "Keeper of my Kin: Memoir of an Immigrant Daughter"(Post)
Thurs 10/1 @ 4:30PM
Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ada Ferrer comes a memoir about migration, separ ...
On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in conversation with Avram Alpert about Mother Emanuel: "Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church"(Post)
Tues 4/21 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African ...
Hanna Garth: "Food Justice Undone Lessons for Building a Better Movement"(Post)
Wed 3/18 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Food justice activists have worked to increase access to healthy food in low-income communities of color across the United States. Yet despite the ...
Durba Mitra & Chandra Talpade Mohanty in conversation, facilitated by Lorgia García Peña: "The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism"(Post)
Thurs 3/26 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Durba Mitra's new book explores how Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imag ...
DATE CHANGE: Ed Park in conversation with Yiyun Li: "Three Tenses: A Transmission from the Nineties"(Post)
Thurs 9/17 @ 6:00PM--PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGELabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Ed Park discusses his new book with Yiyun Li. Three Tenses is an elegant, iridescent mosaic of autobiographical fragmen ...
Dave Zirin in conversation with Brian Jones: "The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn"(Post)
Wed 10/28 @ 6:00PMLabyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street
Join us for a conversation with Dave Zirin on his biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive ...
Matthew Halteman in conversation with Andrew Chignell(Post)
Thursday 5/1 @ 6:00PM
Labyrinth Books
122 Nassau Street
Perhaps you’ve looked at factory farming or climate change and thought, I should become a vegan. And like most people who think that very ...
